Kurds

Many Kurds now live in cities, but some still lead traditional lives of sheep and goat herding.Rupert ConantImpact Photos/Imagestate

Throughout their long history, the Kurds have never had a country to call their own. Most Kurds live in a mountainous region of the Iranian Plateau called Kurdistan, an area where Turkey meets Iran, Syria, and Iraq. At least 20 million Kurds live in Kurdistan; hundreds of thousands inhabit other areas, including Armenia and the Caucasus region. Although their language

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